Juror in Clancy mistrial says panel 'let down' defendant after holdout's alleged misconduct

In a Massachusetts courtroom, the trial of Lindsay Clancy — accused of killing her children — has collapsed not under the weight of evidence, but under the failure of the very institution meant to weigh it. A juror's alleged mimicry of strangulation during deliberations has poisoned the process from within, prompting a mistrial and forcing a reckoning with what justice requires when the jury room itself becomes the scene of misconduct. The case now turns not on what happened to those children, but on whether a fair verdict was ever possible — and whether another attempt at one should be made a